that is what we use in my district as well. Skills are the big goal (like inference, envisioning, etc.) and the strategies are the things they do to make those things happen (like envisioning by using the dialogue tags). if you write teaching points or objectives, its like the skill is what the kids will do and the strategy is how you expect them to do it. it is so confusing! i hope that helps!

I always found strategies and skills hard to define, especially to kids! I tell them that Strategies are what all good readers do as they read. Skills are what you are learning about reading when we analyze the story together.

Strategy instruction stresses the reasoning process readers go through as they interact with and comprehend text: how the strategies one uses change when one reads different texts or reads for different purposes.

Strategy instruction teachers what to do with a skill, how and why to use it, and why it is important.

Strategy instruction focuses on ways to help students understand what they read.